AGI Press Releases

AGI's 2013 Status of Recent Geoscience Graduates Report Released

September 30, 2013

Alexandria, VA - In the first study of its kind, the American Geosciences Institute (AGI) Workforce Program has published the results of the National Geoscience Student Exit Survey. This report documents the experiences of graduating geosciences majors. Initial… [Read More]

EARTH: How Sandy Changed Storm Warnings

September 25, 2013

Superstorm Sandy slammed against the U.S. Eastern Seaboard in October 2012, inundating iconic communities. Those communities have been rebuilding since then and things are almost back to normal for most. But something else has had to be rebuilt as well: the structured… [Read More]

Earth Science Week: Houston Puts City Celebration in Spotlight

September 25, 2013

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) is pleased to announce the first city-specific celebration of its Earth Science Week campaign, Earth Science Week Houston, which takes place October 13-19, 2013. AGI is collaborating with the Houston Geological… [Read More]

Geoscience Currents #75 and #76: Impact of Federal Agencies, Professional Societies and Inquiry-based Teaching on the Professional Development of Early-Career Underrepresented Minority Faculty in the Geosciences

September 20, 2013

Alexandria, VA - The American Geosciences Institute (AGI) has released two final reports on the results of an April 2012 workshop for a cohort made up of underrepresented minority individuals seeking careers in academia. The workshop was hosted by AGI and the National… [Read More]

Earth Science Week Geologic Map Day: Celebrate October 18!

September 18, 2013

Alexandria, VA - Celebrate the second annual Geologic Map Day! On October 18, as a part of the Earth Science Week 2013 activities, join leading geoscience organizations in promoting awareness of the importance of geologic mapping to society. Geologic maps are vital to… [Read More]

Earth: Trans-Nifo Years Could Foster Tornado Super Outbreaks

September 12, 2013

Alexandria, VA — One tornado can be damaging enough; severe weather systems that spawn hundreds of deadly tornadoes in super-outbreaks pose special challenges to the scientific and emergency management communities. Now, scientists have identified certain conditions in… [Read More]

Will High-Scoring SAT Students Pursue a Career in the Geosciences?

August 22, 2013

The American Geosciences Institute s Workforce Program analyzed data on 18,000 precollege students who indicated an inclination towards a major in the physical sciences and scored well on the SAT in 2012 and 2013. The data is broken down further to identify race,… [Read More]

EARTH: Developing a Cyberinfrastructure for the Geosciences

August 20, 2013

Alexandria, VA - The world is buzzing with the hum of servers containing terabytes of the world s collective datasets. And the geosciences are no different. Geoscientists are awash in data like never before. The challenge now for the geoscience community is how to best… [Read More]

GeoSpectrum: Stories of the Geoscience Profession

August 13, 2013

Alexandria, VA - AGI s GeoSpectrum brings you the stories of the geoscience profession. In the 2013 summer edition just published This issue includes: Safety and the geosciences by creating contamination maps of lead distribution in New Orleans, water in the… [Read More]

Earth: Hurricane Hunters Fly Towards Improved Forecasts

August 5, 2013

As EARTH Magazine reports, three projects may be responsible for a 20 percent error reduction in hurricane track and intensity forecasts. The Hurricane Forecast Improvement Program, NASA s 2010 Genesis and Rapid Intensification Project Field Experiment, and the… [Read More]